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Show PG City receives beautification award Pleasant Grove City has received the Salt Lake Tribune Civic Beautification Beau-tification Award for 1989, according accord-ing to Parks Superintendent Bill Hoglund. The city also received Awards of Merit for Outstanding Achievement during the Salt Lake Tribune's Civic Beautification Programs for the entrances to the city, the city library, li-brary, and the city parks. These awards are co-sponsored by Utah State University, Utah Associated Garden Clubs, and the Utah Association of Nursery Men. Hoglund said that this is the fourth time the city has received these awards since it began applying. apply-ing. Parks Foreman Deon Giles and his crews planted 35,736 flowers in the city this past spring. Not only are hundreds of hours involved in planting and caring for these flowers, flow-ers, but Deon spends many hours designing each planting for maximum maxi-mum color and beauty. This year Deon added some round flower beds as an experiment which worked out very well. Parks workers are out at all hours of the night, weekends and holidays making sure the plantings plant-ings get watered thoroughly. The soils are prepared in the autumn so that they will be ready for planting in the spring. Pleasant Grove has received much recognition over the past several years for its lovely plantings plant-ings throughout the city. People come, even from out of state, to see the entrances and parks in Pleasant Grove. |